Lady Pamela Hicks
| Lady Pamela Hicks | |
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Pamela Mountbatten with Jawaharlal Nehru as she was about to leave India in June 1948.
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| Born |
Pamela Carmen Louise Mountbatten 19 April 1929 Barcelona, Spain |
| Spouse(s) | David Nightingale Hicks (m. 1960; d. 1998) |
| Children |
Edwina Brudenell Ashley Hicks India Hicks |
| Parent(s) |
Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma Edwina Ashley |
Lady Pamela Carmen Louise Hicks (née Mountbatten; born 19 April 1929) is a British aristocrat. She is the younger daughter of the 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma by his wife, Edwina Mountbatten. Through her father, Lady Pamela is a first cousin of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and a great niece of the last Tsarina of Russia, Alexandra Feodorovna.
Lady Pamela was born in Barcelona, Spain, in 1929, the younger sister of Lady Patricia Mountbatten. Through her father, she is a first cousin of the Duke of Edinburgh and a great-great-grandchild of Queen Victoria. Through her mother, she is the second great-granddaughter of the 7th Earl of Shaftesbury. During her youth, Lady Pamela lived with her paternal grandmother, Victoria, Marchioness of Milford Haven, during school holidays.
In 1947, Lady Pamela accompanied her parents to India remaining with them throughout her father's term as Viceroy of pre-Independence India and then Governor-General of post-Partition India through 1948, living with them in Government House, New Delhi and the summer Viceregal Lodge in Simla.
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